Sharon Pia Hickey

Sharon Pia Hickey is a lawyer and Programme Officer in International IDEA’s Constitution-Building Programme and Climate Change and Democracy Programme, where she generates knowledge on comparative constitutional process and design and supports constitution-building processes. She organizes the annual Women Constitution-Makers’ Dialogue, which brings together women constitution makers to discuss their experiences with peers.

Sharon began her career in Ireland, supporting women running for political office and advocating for political gender quotas. She has since held several roles supporting the rule of law, including at the International Gender Justice Clinic and the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide at Cornell Law School, where she co-founded the Alice Project for Women on Death Row. Sharon graduated from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and earned her LLM with certification in gender and sexuality law from Columbia Law School, where she served as an editor for the Human Rights Law Review. Sharon is an alum of the Washington Ireland Programme, advancing peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland and Ireland.